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This is going to be a short and sweet little history of Reddit. Reddit was founded in 2005.

Take a look at what Reddit looked like in 2006: https://web.archive.org/web/20061206235353/http://reddit.com/

Note that it didn't have subreddits back then because the user base was too small.

Look at Reddit in 2008 (December 31): https://web.archive.org/web/20081231080128/http://www.reddit.com/reddits/

Politics had just 72,314 subscribers. Technology had 85,678 subscribers, and the "Nicher" Food subreddit had only 4,438 subscribers.

Lemmy/Kbin follows the same path. Initially, generalist communities like Politics and Technology will have the most momentum and gain subscribers, just like Reddit did back then. As the user base grows, "niche" communities will be able to sustain themselves.

Let's not think about the Reddit of today, let's think about Reddit of old. Rome wasn't built in a day.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Lemmy/Kbin will follow the same path.

I hope it's not the same toxification path at least.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

It’s 100% going to be.

Lemmy isn’t “special”. I’ve already seen hot takes and other things to get people riled up on Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So far on Lemmy, whenever I see someone comment this, it's because they're mad Reddit got "toxic towards my free speech to stupid ass MAGA nonsense". Is that what you mean by Reddit being "toxified"?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

No, but your comment immediately assuming out of nowhere that everyone is a MAGAta*d is. Just holy cow, go outside and breathe man.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think there's a lot of people who desire free speech outside of MAGA people.

But I even believe they should have free speech too. Free speech is the most important element of our society imo.